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 | | After the film is developed at the laboratory, it is slit down the middle and the pieces are spliced together, resulting in an 8mm film. |
 | | The film itself comes either wound tightly around a plastic `core,' for loading into a camera magazine (either in a darkroom, or a portable `changing bag'), or, for 100' and 200' lengths, mounted on small metal spools (like those for regular 8mm), which can be loaded into the camera in moderately bright daylight. |
 | | Films shot in 16mm almost always run at 24 frames per second (fps), with the exception of many silent home movies which are sometimes shot at 16 fps. |
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